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13th/18th
Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) |
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown |
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| 1922.11.09 | 13th/18th
Hussars formed by amalgamation of 13th Hussars, and 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) |
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| 1935.12 | 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) | |
| 1939.04 | transferred to Royal Armoured Corps | |
| 1992.12.01 | amalgamated with 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars, to form The Light Dragoons | |
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Deployment and Service | |
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13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own), by Paul Baker (History of the Hussars) | |
| RHQ and Depot: | ||
| Home HQ: Duncombe Barracks, York (1958- ); TAVR Centre, Colliergate, York (1970- ); Imphal Barracks, York (1979?- ); 3 Tower Street, York (1987?-1992) | ||
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| Recruiting Area: South Yorkshire (1958-1992) | ||
| [combined battle honours of 13th
Hussars, and 18th Hussars, with
the following emblazoned:1]
Albuhera, Vittoria, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Defence of Ladysmith, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902 The Great War: Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914 '15, Somme 1916 '18, Cambrai 1917 '18, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, France and Flanders 1914-18, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1916-18 [plus:] The Second World War: Dyle, Withdrawal to Escaut, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Breville, Caen, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pincon, St. Pierre La Vielle, Geilenkirchen, Roer, Rhineland, Waal Flats, Goch, Rhine, Bremen, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45 1. combined list first issued ca. 1961 with the presentation of the first Guidon. |
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1922.04.01
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HM Queen Mary | |
| 1989.04.21 | HRH Diana, The Princess of Wales | |
| 1922 | Lt-Gen. Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth (Baden-Powell), 1st Lord Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB [from 13th Hussars] | |
| 1938.07.15 | Col. James Jardine Richardson, DSO | |
| 1942.04.15 | Brig. John Noel Lumley, CBE, MC | |
| 1952.04.15 | Maj-Gen. Charles Harvey Miller, CB, CBE, DSO | |
| 1959.09.11 | Col. Vincent Ashforth Blundell Dunkerly, DSO , JP | |
| 1968.05.11 | Col. John Roger Cordy-Simpson, CBE, MC | |
| 1974.05.11 | Maj-Gen. Derrick Bruce Wormald, DSO, MC | |
| 1979.05.11 | Maj-Gen. Henry Stuart Ramsay Watson, CBE | |
| 1990.05.14 | Col. Robert John William ffrench Blake [to 1992] | |
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| Motto: | Viret in aeternum; Pro rege, pro lege, pro patria conamur | ||
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| Anniversaries: | Laji (5 Mar.), Normandy (6 June), Balaklava (25 Oct.) | ||
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| Marches: | quick: The
Balaklava March (after WW2 prefaced by first 8 bars of A Life
on the Ocean Wave to commemorate Normandy Landings) slow: The 13th Hussars Slow March slow: The 18th Hussars Slow March |
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17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars |
1922-1958
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The Manitoba Mounted Rifles |
1922-1946
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1946-? | ||
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1958-1992 | ||
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Skinner's Horse |
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6th Lancers |
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The Federation Armoured Car Regiment | ||
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2nd Royal Reconnaissance Regiment |
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| Associated Yeomanry: | |||
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The Warwickshire Yeomanry | 1947-1956 | |
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The Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry | 1956-1992 | |
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Regimental Association (Regimental site) | |
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Regimental Museums (Light Dragoons Regimental site) | |
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13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO) and The Light Dragoons Museum, Cannon Hall, Barnsley (Army Museums Ogilby Trust) | |
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Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley, Yorks, by Henrik Teller (Simonides listing). | |
| Regimental Journal: | ||
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13th/18th journal. | |
| Full Histories: | ||
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Miller, Charles Harvey. History of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) 1922-1947. London : Chisman, Bradshaw, 1949. | |
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Hunt, Eric. History of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own), 1947 to 1992. [England] : Light Dragoons Charitable Trust, 1996. ISBN: 0952833506 | |
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A brief history of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own). [s.l. : s.n.], 1951. | |
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XIII/XVIII Hussars, Sialkot, 1934. Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1934. | |
